The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Johnson

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

Kurt Vonnegut

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

Jason Bateman

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Publilius Syrus

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

Marc Wallice

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.

William Shakespeare

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Edward Tufte

Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to Athena. 'Drugs were food,' he said. 'I was in the food business. Just because people on one planet eat a certain kind of food they're hungry for, that makes them feel better after they eat it, that doesn't mean people on other planets shouldn't eat something else. On some planets I'm sure there are people who eat stones, and then feel wonderful for a little while afterwords. Then it's time to eat stones again.

Kurt Vonnegut

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Ogden Nash

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Mark Twain

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

George Santayana